I fought against a spirit and won. I also created a new element. And finally, by sunset, I arrived at the cave described on the map. It was surrounded by many different boulders. From afar it was impossible to notice the cave because of the boulders and the snow. There are also huge trees in the surrounding area."I must admit. This looks natural if you don't pay close attention. As expected of grandpa."The entrance of the cave looks like a giant broken boulder. If I didn't know this beforehand I wouldn't able to find it. The cave is connected to the mountain so there is a space behind the entrance. It doesn't look to be going deep. This must be done by some illusion.Wait, Uncle Zheng has come here before. So he should be aware of the supernatural. Or at least part of it. I slowly walked into the cave. As soon as I stepped into the cave I felt like I passed some sort of barrier. It was a weird feeling. I also felt my necklace vibrate. So that's what Grandpa Henry mentioned as "the k
I slowly walked into the study room. This is where grandpa should have kept his journals. I suppose they are the things that Carla's grandpa mentioned in his letter. I'm going to study all of them. This foreign energy is more useful than I first thought so I won't stop until I learn everything about it."Maybe I should also become the first sage. The first sage on earth. It sounds nice."The study room was messier compared to the rest of the mansion. Grandpa wasn't a person who likes to tidy up after himself. This makes me emotional but I don't have time for this. I searched around the room and finally found some journals that had leather covers. I sat in the chair in front of the desk.The journals were written by grandpa. The writing belongs to my grandpa. I can recognize it wherever I see it. I start reading the journals. The first one I read was about grandpa's adventure in his early ages. As I thought, he really is involved with the supernatural.My grandpa, Uncle Zheng, and Uncl
The Hex. The third energy source I learned about. It works differently than both mana and aether. It had both similar and different uses compared to mana. As I continued to read about it from the grandpa's journals I noticed a certain thing about it. A person needs an organ called Hex Organ to be able to use this energy or produce it, to begin with.This Hex Organ, I remember hearing it in my nightmares. Is it just a coincidence? Nope, I don't believe it is. It is time for some truths to be revealed. But I couldn't find the answers I'm looking for in these journals. So I did the next thing I could do. Practice using or producing hex energy.Since my body is already capable of producing this energy to some extent I must have Hex Organ somewhere inside my body. The last time I did it was when I was fighting against that strange man and it was accidental at that time. So I have to figure out how to use it without absorbing it from the necklace.I sat cross-legged on the ground. I took a
Jason slowly walked towards the school. The cold weather of the early morning was hitting his head. He wasn't a morning person and the cold air made it worse. He already had a mild headache.Today was Thursday. The fourth day since Oscar left. Mason was also absent from school. His family said that he went to his relatives in Zeabacar. But Mason wasn't even responding to his phone or there were any messages from him. Jason found this behavior suspicious but as nothing abnormal with this situation he couldn't do anything about it. After all, he might just go to his relatives as his family said.As for Oscar, Jason last talked with him two days ago on phone. And ever since he couldn't reach him. His phone didn't have any signal. He was wondering about the family matter Oscar mentioned. He knew that there was a problem between Oscar and his father. But there was also the trouble his cousin from his mother's side caused a few years ago.Oscar's cousin somehow went mad and attacked him wit
I slowly descended into the basement. This is where grandpa kept the records and the knowledge of the Hex Clan. Yeah, turns out we have a clan. Ugh... No, we are a clan. I searched the study room more and find some more journals. In those journals basically some part of our family tree and the records of our family being called Hex Clan.Anyway, it's time to discover what the library of my clan holds. The basement was huge and all of it was the library. There were many shelves and all of them were full of books. There should be at least thousands of books in here."Amazing. This all belongs to my family and me."The words just come out of my mouth. This was so impressive that I ended up muttering. I mean there are supernatural secrets in these books so this alone makes them something ridiculously important. And I don't really know what else is in there. This makes me excited.I have to pull myself together. Remember what you came here for. Ï have to find a way to defeat death and brin
I finally found what I need. I also studied it thoroughly. So I feel like I'm ready. I'm also taking some books with me so I can study them even after arriving at the Daxhoull. Anyway, since yesterday I worked on the formation till late night today I woke up late. I refill the key with hex and prepared everything to get out of here.I left an Exchange rune back in the Daxhoull but unfortunately, I can't use it yet. It requires a ridiculous amount of mana since the distance is hundreds of kilometers. I modify the Exchange runes to be able to simply teleport instead of changing places with other things but the mana cost is still high. I wish I had a space element. It is extremely useful in teleportation.Anyway, I left the mansion and take one last look at this dimension. Yeah, I confirmed it to be a separate dimension from the outside world. Grandpa mentioned it in his journals but he didn't explain how did he create this or did it exist before him. There are a lot of things I need to
A gang from Zlorith. That's the first impression I got from seeing inside the hideout from a window. There are some old daggers that are the specialty of Zlorith. The people of the Zlorith are extremely serious about their traditions. They have a long history, the Zlorith region was a region almost entirely made up of blacksmiths back in the old times. They were the creators of almost every weapon in the old medieval era. At the same time, the Zhose region was a region focused on mining so the two were getting along pretty well.At some point, there was a conflict between the people of these two regions. There were a lot of speculations but the main reason isn't clear. All we know conflict was quite big and it caused two regions to be enemies each other for about a century.Anyway, Zlorith isn't the important thing here. There are seven people in this hideout. All of them have mana traces on them. But there is one person who is quite different than others. She has... aether in her bod
"Fine. Then we will get rid of her after we got our payment. Since she can't hear us while wearing that bracelet she will be unprepared. Jack, you can send energy slashes so behead her head with one strike." "Why do we wait until we got our payment? Let's deal with her now." "You do realize that we are dealing with someone very dangerous, right? The Crimson Skeleton is a big group. They may erase us if we look weak to them. And we are in fact weak now." I heard some more confusing things. Firstly that bracelet sounds terrible. It makes someone unable to hear anything. So that's why she wasn't reacting to what they were talking about. I should inspect it later. The other thing is Crimson Skeleton. This is a weird name like it just jumped out of some fantasy novel. Wait! The world around me has a lot of weird things recently so this should be acceptable. Anyway, it sounds like a name for a dangerous group. According to their conversation, they must be the ones who ordered them to ma